Deadline quiz: Test your Melbourne crime knowledge

From famous last words, to hitmen and bikie-club defections — test your knowledge of Melbourne’s underworld with our mega crime quiz.

Put your knowledge of the underworld to the test with the Deadline quiz.

Deadline wants to give you the third degree.

We’ve put together a 50-question quiz to put your knowledge of Aussie crime to the test, (and to give us a week off writing the column).

Some are tough and some a cinch, so get the gang together and see how you go.

1: Which bikie gang did Toby Mitchell belong to before joining the Mongols?

2: Which Melbourne bikie is the national boss of the Comancheros?

3: Douglas and Peter Morgan were known as which bandits in the 1970s and 1980s?

4: Which taskforce was formed in response to Melbourne’s gangland carnage of the early 2000s?

5: In which country was Tony Mokbel arrested after fleeing Australia?

A bewigged Tony Mokbel in the infamous 2007 mugshot.

6: And where, near Melbourne, did he hide out before sailing overseas?

7: Percy Lanciana is the only man convicted of which high-profile heist?

8: What was the nickname of underworld triggerman Andrew Veniamin?

9: Who was the hitman known as Rent-A-Kill?

10: What was the nickname of armed bandit and prison escapee Russell Cox?

Prison escapee Russell Cox in 1988.

11: At which sprawling Melbourne shopping centre was he dramatically arrested by the armed robbery squad in 1988?

12: Mick Gatto has a tattoo bearing the name of which Melbourne lawyer?

13: Who was the notorious Melbourne crime figure shot dead at Epping in January 2020?

14: What is the nickname of notorious armed robber Christopher Dean Binse?

15: Who was murdered at the Quarry Hotel in Brunswick in 1982?

16: Which landmark Melbourne restaurant was the favourite of Graham “The Munster” Kinniburgh?

17: By which other surname was underworld killer Rodney Earle more commonly known?

18: Murdered bikie Shane Bowden was a member of which gang at the time of his 2020 prison release?

Bikie Shane Bowden.

19: Skitzo and Stiffy have served as leading Melbourne members of which bikie gang?

20: Who was wounded in the shooting ambush in which Lewis Moran died at the Brunswick Club in 2004?

21: Which friend of Alphonse Gangitano was prime suspect in his 1998 shooting murder at Templestowe?

22: Whose conviction over the 2002 murder of Victor Peirce was quashed years later?

23: Where was Nik “The Russian” Radev actually born?

24: Who did Matthew Charles Johnson kill inside Barwon Prison in 2010?

25: And what prison gang does Johnson lead?

26: Whose last words were “I’m off here”, before being shot dead in a bar room ambush at Brunswick?

27: Who was the self-proclaimed vampire shot dead outside his Reservoir home in 2003?

28: And what was the subsequent operation which went after those police believed were involved?

29: With what Melbourne strip club was Amad “Jay” Malkoun associated?

30: Which gangster, murdered at West Sunshine in 2000, once told the Herald Sun’s Jeremy Kelly: “I’ve just watched Reservoir Dogs too many times”?

A scene from the movie Reservoir Dogs.

31: Colin “Snake” Websdale has been associated with which bikie gang?

32: Which Comanchero, a suspect in two bungled killings, left Australia in 2019 and has not returned?

33: Rocco Arico is expected to be extradited to which country when he finishes his current jail term?

34: Which criminal was the mastermind of the 1976 Great Bookie Robbery?

35: And where was he shot dead three years later?

36: Which famous bandit did Brendan Berichon bust out of a Brisbane prison in 1997?

37: Which Victoria Police taskforce specialises in investigating bikies?

38: Career criminal Olaf Dietrich went by which other name?

Olaf Dietrich had a much snappier alias.

39: Who was the legendary Melbourne crime figure known as The Texan?

40: And who was his cop acquaintance known as The Skull?

41: Name the Griffith Mafia figure who died in a Spanish hospital in 1987?

42: Which crooked Sydney detective was known as “The Dodger”?

43: Who was the 1980s Melbourne crime lord known as Mr Death?

44: And what was the name, shared with an Aussie entertainment icon, of his heroin-dealer brother?

45: Who was shot dead outside an Ascot Vale deli on June 15, 2009?

46: And which of his relatives was jailed for having a hand in the killing?

47: Mario Condello, murdered at Brighton in 2006, had been expelled from which profession?

48: Who was shot at Gladstone Park in 1999 during a meeting with Mark and Jason Moran, sparking years of gangland war?

49: What is the name of Carl Williams’ former wife?

50: Which Melbourne gangland figure was portrayed on the big screen by Eric Bana?

Eric Bana made his name playing this criminal in a 2000 film.

ANSWERS

1: Bandidos

2: Mick Murray

3: After Dark Bandits

4: Purana

5: Greece

Tony Mokbel escorted by Greek police.

6: Bonnie Doon

7: The 1994 Richmond Road Gang Robbery

8: Benji

9: Christopher Dale Flannery

10: Mad Dog

11: Doncaster Shoppingtown

12: Robert Richter

QC Robert Richter.

13: Nabil Maghnie

14: Badness

15: Brian Kane

16: Flower Drum

17: Collins

18: Mongols

19: Hells Angels

20: Herb Wrout

21: Jason Moran

22: Faruk Orman

23: Bulgaria

24: Carl Williams

Gangland figure Carl Williams.

25: Prisoners of War

26: Lewis Moran

27: Shane Chartres-Abbott

28: Briars

29: Spearmint Rhino

30: Dino Dibra

31: Rebels

32: Hasan Topal

Comanchero Hasan Topal left Australia in 2019.

33: Italy

34: Ray Chuck Bennett

35: The old Melbourne Magistrates’ Court

36: Brenden Abbott

37: Echo

38: Hugo Rich

39: Billy Longley

40: Brian Murphy

41: Robert Trimbole

42: Roger Rogerson

43: Dennis Allen

44: Peter Allen

45: Des “Tuppence” Moran

46: Judy Moran

47: Law

48: Carl Williams

49: Roberta

50: Mark “Chopper” Read